CUIP/NSP-Tech Reporting Procedures and Messages

New, notable, revised, augmented, or urgent notes

New Messages [Tue 2014-11-11]

• CUIP NSP-Tech messages and Reporting Reminder, "Remembrance Day" Edition
• Please note the Dates to Watch items below (especially for today and tomorrow!). Also we have started including NSP workshops in the listing
• Thanks as always for your work in the schools, and keeping in touch with CUIP whether in-person, email, Evernote reporting, or even just maintaining the school Tech Requests spreadsheet.
• No, even if you heard it mangled this way on the news, today is NOT the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting in World War I. That was Nov. 11, 1918, four years from (100 years ago) now. But recently there have been a series of 100th anniversaries of events around the outbreak of that war

Past notes

New Messages [Tue 2014-11-04]

• Yes, Autumn Quarter is pushing past the halfway mark this week
  • So, can we assume everyone feels comfortably settled-in? No more start-of-quarter (or start-of-year!) dilemmas or confusions? If you're still in the grip of any of those, PLEASE write and let us know!
• Thanks for your continuing work in the schools, and thanks to those submitting reports via Evernote.
  • It was gratifying to see notes from additional NSPs last week, with interesting insights into their schools. Still, we are only hearing from a few of you. Reminder: you can browse that Notebook and see what sort of reports others are sending in, which could tip you to the fact that it's not that hard to do!
  • Instructions are at Tech Reporting How-To
• We shared our folder in Google Drive to the newly-joined NSPs, and mentioned the need to update some stored programs and in general clean up the folder. Haven't gotten very far with that, but did upload some newer versions -- in particular of the program for getting a Windows XP or Win 7 computer onto the CPs Enterprise network.
  • But also we are taking in part a fresh-start approach to these "tech tips" and program/script sharing. We've started an Evernote Notebook and shared it with all of you, for this purpose.
  • That is a SECOND Notebook, distinct from the one for your reports. The one for reports is called "CUIP NSP Techs School Reporting". This new one is called "CUIP NSP Techs - Tech Notes and Resources".
  • Keep an eye out for a sharing reminder. Please let me know if these should go to a different address of yours.
  • The "CUIP NSP Techs - Tech Notes and Resources" at this point has 5 notes -- two containing just programs, one discussing use of one of those programs, and two repeating last week's tech notes here and on Wikispaces about CPS-push of browser updates.
• Thanks to those who pro-actively added your own school work schedules to our shared Google Calendar "CUIP NSP". We have added others, based on our back-office idea of what you have said your schedule would be. By all means, do take a look and see if we've gotten it right. If you haven't added that calendar, see last week's note.
• Last week I posed this: "Okay, quick sharp-eye quiz. Can you find, somewhere in the body of this email, the title of a 1950s classic American drama (and subsequent movie)?
  • No, it was not "Rhinoceros". That play is French, not American; and the word (misspelled intentionally, by Ogden Nash) "rhinosterous" was in the email signature, not body.

New Messages [Mon 2014-10-27]

• Welcome back, or welcome as a new CUIP NSP-Tech!
  • Welcome back returnees! We're very happy that most of you have rejoined us and have been getting to your schools.
  • Also please say hello to the new or new-ish: to Jamie (at Wadsworth) and Jaime (at Woodlawn), who are new to NSP this year; to Yessica (at Burke) who was at that same school last year as an NSP tutor, and now has shifted roles to CUIP NSP-Tech; and to Harris (at Ray) and Eduardo (at Fiske) who are continuing as CUIP NSP-Techs but have transferred to other schools.
  • My apologies for the delay in getting these messages going.
  • It isn't pinned down yet, but we hope to make that "please say hello" a literal and in-person thing, by holding a brief pizza-and-organizational-meeting get-together later in the quarter. Watch your emails for questions (probably from Sara) about times, topics, and convenience.
• Thanks for your continuing work in the schools, and thanks to those submitting reports via Evernote.
  • Kudos to Ivy (at Fiske) for entering the earliest, and most, Evernote reports this year.
  • Please try to let us know what you have been doing, via this reporting mechanism. It needn't be every week, and can be skipped at times when Brandi or Emily are also expecting reports, or academically busy weeks, or weeks with too many workshops or concerts, or ....; BUT please don't let that become zero!
  • Instructions are at http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/NSP-Tech+Reporting+How-To
    • Please let me know about inaccuracies or other problems with that page.
    • This fall we've observed some problems creating/editing Notes, in the web version of Evernote. It may be necessary to try either the standalone computer program, or the phone/tablet app.
    • As it says (not prominently enough) on that instructions page, if you did not receive or can't access the sharing invitation anymore, email me for a new one.
• As before, a Google calendar is available where you can see other CUIP-NSP-Tech work schedules, and check (or even directly correct) the entries we’ve made for your own work schedule.
  • To do that, you need to be a Google Calendars user already.
  • If the address associated with your Google Calendars account is different from the one we seem to be using for this mailing or usually contact you on, please supply the right one for Calendars (to Mitch@uchicago.edu or Help@cuip.net).
  • To access / add this calendar from your Google Calendars page, look in the left side column, at the "Other calendars" area (below the "My calendars" area). Click on "Add a friend's calendar". Fill in the email slot with "cuip.nsps@gmail.com". The calendar you want is called "CUIP NSP"
• .Okay, quick sharp-eye quiz. Can you find, somewhere in the body of this email, the title of a 1950s classic American drama (and subsequent movie)?

New Messages [Mon 2014-05-19]

• The notes deserving highlighting are events in the calendar:
  • This is Student Appreciation Week at NSP, and there are daily events, starting with the Ice Cream Social today.
  • Next week there is a holiday on Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day observed). CPS and the University both are taking the day off!
• Thanks for your continuing work in the schools, and thanks to those submitting reports via Evernote.
  • We have been a little disappointed about not getting followups for matters we start to hear about but don’t get discussed or reported further. Want to know how the story ends!
  • It’s great if you can fix something for a teacher. If it’s something that you discussed with CUIP staff, maybe in email or maybe implicitly via shared tech-request form and spreadsheet, it would be also great to see some notation about what worked or didn’t and whether the matter is resolved. I’m not insisting on Evernote for this -- it could be Evernote, or reply-email, or an entry in the tech-request spreadsheet for your school (along with “done” I guess…).
  • So, just looking for something like “Installed the IE8 update from the School-ADM01 site, it ran okay and seems to have fixed the teacher’s Impact issue.”

No messages were sent [Mon. 2014-05-13]
[Mon 2014-05-05]

• Thanks for your excellent work in the schools.
• Thanks also for some pickup in the reporting participation.
  • The Wikispaces page at http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/NSP-Tech+Reporting+How-To now has instructions (and screenshots) for the Evernote system.
• Have a good Sixth Week! Go enjoy a Fifth of ... May!

[Mon 2014-04-28]

• It was good to see some of you at the NSP Workshop with Ms. Khaleel last Tuesday.
• Now that we are comfortably in mid-quarter flow, can we ask you to try to get back in the habit of reporting your CUIP-NSP school activity?
  • Recently in our shared Evernote notebook we have been seeing reports from only two people. (Oddly enough, these are at the same school. Or maybe that makes entire sense?)
  • I was upset when Evernote apparently lost an entry I wrote. Please let us know if you experience anything like that, or other technical or practical problems.
• And not to forget: Thanks for the good work you are all doing in your schools!

[Mon 2014-04-21]

• Last week as you know was CPS Spring Break week.
  • Some of us at CUIP staff took some time off. Did you notice you did not get an issue of this newsletter last week?
  • Yes, it was a bit confusing that CPS break came a couple weeks after UofC break. A few of you would have started working for CUIP/NSP-Tech or resumed for Spring Quarter last week, but the schedule got in the way. No worries, we're glad to see you taking care of it now.
• NSP Workshops
  • The workshops for NSP, as set out in Brandi's email before break, have now been entered in the University events calendar;
    • also in our "CUIP NSP" calendar (see the archived message from a fortnight ago for details on joining that calendar);
    • and in the linearized dates listing below.
  • Of interest to NSP-Techs, tomorrow (Tuesday 22 April) at 5:00 PM, Ms. Khaleel from Burke ES will lead a workshop on integrating technology in the classroom. Located in the gym.
• Thank you for entering your CUIP reporting into Evernote. We always read them with interest, even if you do not see a direct reply.

[Mon 2014-04-07]

• We hear from the NSP Office that almost all of you completed their end-of-quarter reports and feedback for Winter Quarter. That’s great!
  • Now that we are in the new quarter and you are back in your schools, please remember to provide your CUIP Tech reporting as well. (If you don’t have access via the shared Evernote notebooks, please contact Mitch@uchicago.edu to get it set up.)
• Have you started back to work at your school?
  • The NSP Office needs you to check back in with them before going back to work at your school.
  • CUIP would also like to hear from you, but it need not be in advance of going back
  • to work. We’d just like to get a message that you’re back, and ready for work, and what your schedule will be (approximately).
  • If you have started for the quarter but do not know your work schedule, please send that info -- you needn’t wait until you can spell out a schedule.
• As before, a Google calendar is available where you can see other CUIP-NSP-Tech work schedules, and check (or even directly correct) the entries we’ve made for your own work schedule.
  • To do that, you need to be a Google Calendars user already.
  • If the address associated with your Google Calendars account is different from the one we seem to be using for this mailing or usually contact you on, please supply the right one for Calendars (to Mitch@uchicago.edu or Help@cuip.net).
  • To access / add this calendar from your Google Calendars page, look in the left side column, at the “Other calendars” area (below the “My calendars” area). Click on “Add a friend’s calendar”. Fill in the email slot with “cuip.nsps@gmail.com”. The calendar you want is called “CUIP NSP”.
• Upcoming dates details below, and as linked to calendars.
  • Sorry this is not going out early enough to give you a useful reminder that TODAY is an Elementary Schools Report Card Pickup Day (aka Parent-Teacher Conference Day), and you should check in advance about your school’s schedule and whether they want you there working.
  • NEXT WEEK is CPS Spring Vacation. Schools will be closed.
    • Schools will be closed … mostly. You should not count on working at your school over break. BUT if you explicitly verify that the Principal will have the building open, and the Techco or others have provided a list of tech tasks to be done, you can BY ARRANGEMENT do that work and submit the hours.
    • Keep in touch with the NSP Office, who may be arranging field trips or special events.
    • CUIP may have one or two jobs to be done either at our office or online.
  • We are going to start including NSP Learning Workshops and similar events in both our Google Calendar and in the dates-to-watch listing below in mailings.
    • Of particular interest to this group, one such Workshop coming up soon will be “Integrating Technology in the Classroom”, led by Ms. Khaleel of Edmund Burke ES. The workshops are still being scheduled, but the current planned date for Ms. Khaleel will be Tuesday April 22nd.

[Mon 2014-03-31]

• Welcome back! We hope you all had good experiences over the UChicago Spring Break Week.
  • The NSP Office needs you to check back in with them before going back to work at your school.
  • Related: if you have been using the NSP van transportation service, please re-enter your requested trip schedule for this quarter.
  • CUIP would also like to hear from you, but it need not be in advance of going back to work. We’d just like to get a message that you’re back, and ready for work, and what your schedule will be (approximately).
• CPS has not yet had their Spring Break Week. See calendrical details below.

[Mon 2014-03-17]

• It is ELEVENTH WEEK, also known as EXAM WEEK. The end of Winter Quarter; will it also be the end of winter?
  • For those with end-of-quarter academic work still pending, we wish you best of luck and knowledge for your papers and exams!
  • Thanks again for the work you’ve been doing in your schools!
  • HOWEVER,
    • Please try to be more diligent about getting a paper timesheet filled out, signed by your at-school contact, and turned in for each pay period!
    • Also if you use the NSP transportation service (van), please respect their constraints and practices -- file a schedule and try to stick to it, and when you cannot, then try to give substantial advance cancellation.
  • Also thanks for adapting to the Evernote reporting and keeping up with it. Likely the NSP office will ask you for end-of-quarter feedback -- if you are pressed for time, please give theirs the priority.
• And that means NEXT WEEK is UChicago’s Spring Break. I’ll repeat these relevant notes:
  • During UChicago Spring Break week, CPS will still be rolling right ahead with schools in session. If you are staying in Chicago over our break week, and want to work at your school, that can be very easily done. There are a few caveats:
    • Ask at the school if they are okay with that.
    • If you use the NSP Transport Service (the van), check with them on what the vacation-time van schedule will be.
    • You are not strictly limited to your usual hours! But don’t exceed those by a huge amount -- don’t turn in a 40-hour week!

[Mon 2014-03-10]

• Thanks as always (really!) for your great work in the schools.
• Yikes! It is TENTH WEEK!
  • Please formulate plans for how long you will still be working in the school the next week or two, and keep your school contact person well-informed.
  • During UChicago Spring Break week, CPS will still be rolling right ahead with schools in session. If you are staying in Chicago over our break week, and want to work at your school, that can be very easily done. There are a couple caveats:
    • Ask at the school if they are okay with that.
    • If you use the NSP Transport Service (the van), check with them on what the vacation-time van schedule will be.
    • You are not strictly limited to your usual hours! But don’t exceed those by a huge amount -- don’t turn in a 40-hour week!
  • Have a great Exam Week and a turbo Spring Break!
• Thanks for keeping up so well with the Evernote reporting.
  • CUIP staff is still sometimes making inserted comments. I don’t know of a mechanism for notifying a Note’s author when others have updated. But if you sort the Notebook by modify time, you might see your previous note listed at a later time (higher position) than when you wrote it.
  • Still thinking of sharing another notebook, for tech tips and questions that have actually come up. This would be a variation on __http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/NSP-Tech+Reporting+Messages+TechnicalNotes__ and probably would link there too. I have two questions emailed last week to try out there -- Smart Board and iPad Management -- any thoughts on this?

[Mon 2014-03-03]

• Thanks for all you do in the schools; and for keeping up with your CUIP reporting.
• Oh wow! It’s 9th week already! Please start thinking about how your NSP work schedule will be affected by exams and other end-of-quarter activities.
• In CPS schools, this is the first of two weeks of the ISAT mandated testing.
  • Some procedures and policies at your school may be changed during testing. This sometimes includes access to computer labs. So check with your contacts at school about whether and how your work may need to be conducted.

[Mon 2014-02-24]

• Thanks for your fine work!
  • Thanks also for reporting. The flow of reports has slowed somewhat, however. Would it help to have this email (with implicit or explicit reporting reminder) weekly on Friday or Saturday instead of Monday or Tuesday?
• See the Dates to Watch listing -- some of your tech teachers will be out of school Thursday or Friday for the Illinois Computing Educators conference.
• The answer to last week’s George Washington “quik-quiz”: February 11. Not February 22, which he switched to later, following the adoption in the colonies of the New Style calendar and the notorious skipped days.

[Mon 2014-02-17]

• TODAY (Monday) is a regular school and work day, at CPS and UChicago -- despite being the holiday observance for Presidents Day in some other contexts.
  • Hope this late-arriving note didn’t leave you uninformed!
  • Historical quik-quiz (no, I don’t have a prize to offer): On what date did George Washington [or his family] observe his birthday, from his birth in 1731 up to 1752?
• We thank you for your work representing UChicago at the schools!
  • Please! If for whatever reason you have been having trouble getting to your school assignment regularly, please talk it over with a CUIP or NSP staffer.
• Thanks again for participating in the new reporting system, using Evernote.
  • A “How-to” guide is under development, to go into these mailings, onto our Wikispaces page, and I suppose into the Evernote notebook itself. Meanwhile, if you have questions, don’t hesitate to email or ask in person.
  • In lieu of a well-developed set of “tips and tricks” here is just one suggestion. Please feel free to read others’ reports, and if you can contribute a response to a question or point raised, please add it in place within the original note. To distinguish responses, you can use markup -- on the editing toolbar there is a hiliting-marker icon which gives a yellow-hiliting look to your text. Combine that with indenting to organize a conversational series. (See “Fiske II” or “Ray 2/10/2014” for examples of add-in comments.)
• An archive of these messages remains at http://cuiptech.wikispaces.com/NSP-Tech+Reporting+Messages
  • Thanks to William from Dunbar HS for handling the postings to our Wikispaces pages.

[Tue 2014-02-11]

• As always, we want to say thanks for the expert efforts and enthusiastic endeavors in your excellent work at your schools!
• Thanks for coming to the CUIP NSP-Techs meeting last Monday!
  • That will count as one of your NSP workshops for the quarter. Watch for the end-of-quarter message from Brandi or Emily with a link to a form; you should be able to select the CUIP training.
• As announced at that meeting, we are changing the method of reporting we are asking you to use.
  • __http://reporting.cuip.net__ is still there, as an archive, but is not intended for further use
  • We will instead be using Evernote.
  • Several of you have already gotten started with posting your school reports to the “CUIP NSP Techs School Reporting” notebook. Thanks so much!
  • If you did not get your Evernote invitation and the notebook share info, or need

[2013-11-26]

• Thanks for your continued excellent work in the schools!
  • And Welcome Back or Welcome to CUIP, to anyone we haven't greeted earlier in the quarter!
• As we near the end of Autumn Quarter 2013, please plan the work days at CPS you likely will need to miss for papers, studying, exams, etc., and notify all concerned (CUIP, NSP Transportation, and your contact at your school).
• Some key dates are listed above. We have trimmed some extraneous Google Calendars we were using, but still do use one called "CUIP NSP" on which we record both those key dates and your work schedules as you have given them to us.
  • If you don't see that one in your Google Calendars, maybe return to the email that said it was shared with you and follow a link there; or look on your google calendars page in the "Other Calendars" section, and if not shown there use the "Add a friend's calendar" box to find the calendar for "cuip.nsps@gmail.com". (Of course, none of this applies if you aren't a Google Calendars user. That's okay.)
  • If your schedule is missing or wrong, please either send us adjustments to make, or make them yourself (you should have write access).

[2013-05-08]
*Thanks for your continued excellent work in the schools!

• Also thanks to those who have been contributing to the CUIP Reporting Blog. As mentioned before, we on the CUIP staff always read your reports eagerly, even if we get somewhat behind in individually acknowledging and commenting.

[2013-05-02]

• Thanks to those who came to our CUIP NSP-Tech meeting on Monday.
• In Dates to Watch, note next Wednesday's half-day for CPS students.

[2013-04-24]

• Next Monday CUIP NSP Tech Meeting 4:30 PM.
  • Please RSVP to Sara@cuip.uchicago.edu if you haven't already.
  • Roughly like our Winter meeting, required for new NSP-Techs and those who did not get to the previous one. Optional for others, and will count to your NSP Learning Opportunities requirement for Spring Quarter
• Thanks to all for your good work in the schools.
  • Thanks also to those who have been reporting on our Reporting Blog. CUIP staff eagerly read these always, even if we do not reply in place to all entries!
  • Newer NSP Techs may want to get started with reporting, using the __instructions linked elsewhere on this Wiki__; rather than waiting for the demo at next week's meeting. It's not hard.
• Sorry, the new Tech Tip mentioned last week is still not in finished form. See last week's messages (below!) for notes on joining the CUIP TechWiki and filling in or rewriting some items yourself!

[2013-04-11]

• Welcome back for spring quarter, or Welcome to CUIP-NSP-Tech!
  • Oh wait, we already said that last week. Well, no reason not to extend the sentiment!
  • On the formal check-ins, we think that (as of later today, anyway) everyone will have resumed work at their continuing school, or gone on at least one introductory visit at their newly-assigned school. If you have not, then please get in touch with CUIP and let us know what's up.
• Besides these messages echoing the weekly mailings, this CUIP-NSP Tech Wiki also holds a text-hoarder's paradise of half-completed, half-updated notes on how technology works in CPS, from a perspective meant for our own use and school-techco partners or guests.
  • Your help in editing and improving those notes would always be welcome. Check with Mitch to propose major overhauls, but for smaller in-place corrections or updates, feel free to jump right in.
  • To get editing permissions, you would need to click on "Join This Wiki" and we will pretty quickly go and approve. (If your sign-up address or username doesn't make it clear who you are, you might mention that).

[2013-04-04]

• Welcome aboard CUIP! We have five new CUIP-NSP Techs starting out at schools this week and next.
  • If we haven't yet arranged an introductory visit to your school, please mail help@cuip.net and remind us.
  • We haven't yet done this en masse, but you can expect a few addtional notifications for shares of calendars, a Google Drive folder, that sort of thing. Also in some cases items specific to your school, such as the online tech-service request form. And though you need not do any CUIP-specific reporting this week (see an overview below), we will be setting up sign-ins and posting-categories for you.
• Welcome back, continuing NSPs! Did you have a good spring break?
  • As mentioned in Sara's email this Monday, you need not check in with us before returning to your school, but you should definitely check in with the NSP Office. And Brandi's email to you via NSP maillist spelled out what they expect from you to count as a successful check-in. One item on her list is Learning Workshop Evaluation for Winter, available at http://goo.gl/i668w ; note that CUIP's Tech Meeting on February 12 can count as your Learning Workshop; it is the last item on the dropdown selector.
  • When you have established your work schedule for this quarter (even if just in general terms) please let us know.
  • The new NSPs will in a few instances be working at schools where one of you already is placed. When we come over to introduce them to the school, we'll hope to bump into you onsite if we're lucky; but otherwise we will do a quick email intro.

[2013-03-11]

• This is again an ISAT week, so use discretion about barging around at your school.
  • However, there is likely to be less testing than last week
• As noted in email you may have gotten from Brandi and Sara, CUIP needs NSP Techs for two schools. If you pass along word to your friends, we may be able to interview and orient them over the next couple weeks and get them started fresh in Spring Quarter!
  • Please ask them to go to http://cuip.uchicago.edu/student-survey to start the process
• This is 10th week already! Un-be-lieve-able!
  • Please think about what work days at your school you will be available for, in terms of your academic responsibilities with Exam Week coming up and project due dates for the end of the quarter.
    • Let your school contact person know about these departures from previously scheduled times, please.
    • Also, if you use NSP van transportation, make sure they are not expecting you at an incorrect time.
    • Also please communicate these alterations, and planned last day of work, to your CUIP contact person, or to our "help@cuip.net" alias.
• This year the CPS Spring Break and UofC Spring Break coincide. (That probably deserves another "Un-be-lieve-able!") So there generally will not be opportunity to work over break. Please make sure your school contact knows what your planned last day of work will be.

[2013-02-27]

• Reminder: today is a half-day for CPS students
• We still need one or two more NSP-Techs. If you refer your friends now, we could get them started for Spring Quarter.
  • No, we haven't figured out an appropriate "referral bonus" :-)
• ISAT testing next week may mean changed classroom access or activity levels at schools. Please cooperate fully with the schools' desire to have a calm, quiet atmosphere during testing.
  • If you are scheduled to work Monday or Tuesday and learn you will be idled for ISAT, please contact Sara, Mitch, or your regular CUIP TRA for info on make-up work those days at another school project.

[2013-02-22]

• Thanks to all NSP-Techs for your work in the schools, for your communication with the techcos and teachers, and for keeping in touch with CUIP by email, in person, and on the Reporting Blog posts and comments.
• Please note CPS half-day for students next Wednesday.
• Thanks to those who have been mentioning CUIP to friends! We could in fact still use a couple more "new recruits" for Spring.

[2013-02-14]

• Thanks to all who came to Tuesday's meeting!
  • A few of the preloaded bootable flash drives are still available for those who missed the meeting.
  • We mentioned: It's great if you can comment on each other's reports or start tech discussions on the Reporting Blog.
  • But if you ask a question requiring a quicker answer, use email. A good address is Help@CUIP.UChicago.edu which just goes to our immediate in-the-schools staff, and could get you an answer even if the one or two individuals you might have written to directly are unavailable.
  • If illness or academic pressures mean you need to miss a work day at your school, the top priority is to inform your contact at the school, especially if there is someone who will be expecting you for a specific time and activity. We'd appreciate it if you would also (email CC is fine) inform CUIP -- again, either the CUIP staff person you usually work with or simply that same Help@CUIP.UChicago.edu alias.
  • Most tech supplies and hardware stored at the CUIP office is available for you to use at your school or take and install / give to the school. In general the best time to find us in the office is Monday mornings. For other times, email or talk with us. Some items we need to ration or loan-to-be-replaced. Others it's fine to take and use. Items available include:
    • Flat-screen monitors, most lacking video cables
    • USB cables, A-to-B (printer type), variety lengths
    • CAT5 network cables, mostly 7-foot, some longer
    • 5-port or 8-port Ethernet mini-switches ("hubs")
    • USB plug-in Wi-fi adapter
    • Special-purpose screwdriver bits (open a Mac, mount IBM server drive on carrier, etc.) [borrow]
    • External portable USB-connect harddrive [borrow]
    • Harddrive Enclosures, for both IDE and SATA style drives [borrow]
• New embedded-calendars pages on Reporting Blog and Tech Wiki
• Happy less-than-three day for those observing it today!

[2013-02-06]

• Next Tuesday, 4:30 PM, the CUIP/NSP-Tech meeting
  • More info at this link
  • RSVP at this link

[2013-01-31]

• Thanks to all of you for a top-notch job in the schools!
  • (Bonus points for spotting the southside carnivore allusion in that line)
• CPS has released the proposed 2013-14 calendar.
  • News item at http://cps.edu/Spotlight/Pages/Spotlight389.aspx
  • Calendar at http://cps.edu/sitecollectiondocuments/SY2013_2014Calendar.pdf
  • Unified -- No more Track E vs Track R!
• We have shared out our "Tech-Utils" folder on Dropbox.
  • This is meant for the same purpose and contents as the Google Drive share, so you can use whichever is more convenient. I think however the Dropbox one is somewhat out of date. Feel free to update either.
  • Sigh .. sorry, the two are inside-out from each other in terms of where the School-ADM01 CPS standard scripts are located. You'll figure it out.

[2013-01-24]

• The WordPress platform of the CUIP Reporting Blog has been updated to version 3.5.
  • The most prominent change is in the media manager and uploader, said to be mightily improved and easy to use.
  • So let's have some uploaded pictures from your school!!
• Nag, nag, nag :-(
  • We still do not have Winter schedules from some of you
  • We still do not have any reports Autumn or Winter from some of you

[2013-01-17]

• Welcome back for the winter quarter!
• If you haven't done so already, please be sure CUIP is aware of whether you have started back at your school or when you plan to, and additionally a general idea of what your work schedule will be. (And please see the CALENDARS note under 2012/11/21 "Recent past notes".)
• Please make your presence felt at the CUIP/NSP Reporting Blog http://reporting.cuip3.org/ , especially if in autumn 2012 you posted infrequently .. or not at all :( ! Details on how to use the site are below.
• No school this coming Monday, 2013-01-21 -- Dr. King's Birthday observed. See below for more upcoming dates to note.

[2012/10/25]

• Welcome back!
• We're very pleased to have you returning students working with us and the partner schools again. We do still have some unfilled positions. Thank you to those who followed up on Sara's email earlier in the week and passed along our info to individuals or your House distribution lists.
• If you have resumed work at your school, you might also be ready to get into the swing of things with the activity-reporting blog. Congrats to Katie and Erwin for leading the way on this! (If you have forgotten how to do that, or are a new member of the team, there are brief instructions below and a link to detailed instructions.

"Standing orders" and other past messages

• Thanks to those of you who have been filing reports on your school activity. For those who have not yet been reporting for this year, please try to give us a report at least once a month.
  • When CUIP staff (or your fellow NSP-Techs) add Comments to your reports, we may not also email them; so you may want to check in the comments list for feedback on your previous reports. (New 11/10/11) -->> Or add the Comments feed to your RSS reader, or subscribe by email. (Use the widgets on the right-hand rail area.)
  • We are also using the Reporting Blog to post occasional notices and tech tips (in coordination with the CUIP Tech Wiki site). You may want to browse for this kind of material (as well as reports from your colleague NSP Techs) even when you are not ready to post your owncurrent report yet.
• "Track R" is the term CPS has introduced for "regular track", meaning the main set of schools not on a special calendar track such as Track E.
  Please be aware of whether your school is Track R or Track E
  • Track E schools == {Dulles, Fiske, Fuller, Mollison, Till, Woodson}
  • Track R schools == the rest
• We're happy to say that some of the indigestible content of the weekly email reminder has been pulled out to the web (you're lookin' at it) and replaced in the weekly email by links.
• As an option, instead of emailing your schedule, you can enter it directly on the "CUIP NSP" calendar in Google Calendars. Send us your Google Calendar enabled email address, and we will add you to the editors of that calendar and forward some instructions.
• We'd like to put an activity level goal on reporting regularity. Please check in at http://reporting.cuip.net and update us on your school activity AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH, if you can't keep up with doing it every week. Thanks!
• If you can get the reporting done while you are at your school and on the clock, it certainly should be counted as part of your paid time. We realize it may be a hurried moment to do the reporting, clock out on UChicagoTime, and meet the van on time. But if you can wrap up other work a little early and take care of these admin items while on site, that may be better than letting it encroach on your free time.
• Please remember to include the URL when you mention a website that you built or helped with or that a class used. (This has now been added into the template.)
• On report card pickup / parent conference days, similarly, you can get at classroom computers -- but please respect parent-teacher privacy, and be aware of a special schedule (at many schools, it is noon to 6 PM).

[2011]

• When CUIP staff (or your fellow NSP-Techs) add Comments to your reports, we may not also email them; so you may want to check in the comments list for feedback on your previous reports. (New 11/10/11) -->> Or add the Comments feed to your RSS reader, or subscribe by email. (Use the widgets on the right-hand rail area.)
• We are also using the Reporting Blog to post occasional notices and tech tips (in coordination with the CUIP Tech Wiki site). You may want to browse for this kind of material (as well as reports from your colleague NSP Techs) even when you are not ready to post your owncurrent report yet.
• (New 11/10/11) The Reporting Blog and the CUIP Tech Wiki will remain online during the week when our in-office server is down for an office move and our @cuip.net email addresses are also down -- these offsite-hosted web sites can be considered alternative communication routes for notices and questions.

Other notes previously on this page but pulled off into an archive page.

Related pages on this CUIP Tech Wiki

If you have some time and curiosity, please browse and read other people's reports and comments. Also please feel free to add your comments to others' posts or comments.